Posted on 10/24/2015 2:42:28 PM PDT by lee martell
I occasionally listen to George Noory, on a radio show called Coast to Coast. This program used to be hosted by Art Bell. It features a dialog about paranormal experiences, UFO's, debates about green, evolution and religious issues. Every so often, so often, a guest will come on the air saying we are 'in the last days' before the apocalypse. Most recently, there was talk of The Shemitah; a belief of events starting with the appearance of a Blood Moon, that eventually lead to the end times. The end of the shemitah year was on Sept. 13th. The date passed by uneventfully, with neither Israel or the U.S. shown to be in any great peril.
I used to really keep up with those 'ending dates', a small part of me expecting something to happen. The last time I really fell for it (privately of course, as I would never voice an expectation that some would say borders on 'nutty') was during the summer of 1993; the summer of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The comet was discovered by two men simultaneously. Alan Hale, an astronomer in California and Thomas Bopp, a construction store manager who was a stargazer as a hobby discovered what some call the last Great Comet of the Twentieth Century. Great Comets are sometimes seen as harbingers of doom,i.e. the Great Comet of 1861, which appeared just before the Civil War, or the 1811 Great Comet, said to have come just before Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The Hale-Bopp had no major wars associated with it, but it's appearance coincided with a peak of general interest in celestial phenomenon and a popularity of paranormal talk shows, such as Art Bell's Coast to Coast. Many UFO buffs began the suggestion that there was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following in the tail of the Hale-Bopp Comet.
How about you, do you, or does someone close to you spend an inordinate amount of time living in the past or living in a state of waiting for the future, where the grass is always just a little bit greener than what we seen today?
Unfortunately, some took this speculation as literal fact. Enter the California cult named Heaven's Gate: a group based on UFO idolatry and ideation. Heavens Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite. In March of 1997, as Hale-Bopp was at its most prominent in the sky, 39 members of the cult committed ritual suicide, believing their souls would ascend to the UFO supposedly trailing the comet.
The news of this tragic event made me stop and think. Why was I so 'eager' for there to be an 'end times' scenario? What was I wanting to avoid or get away from? Had I given up thinking that I would find happiness in this physical existence? This was a healthy meditation for me to have. Since then, though I follow some celestial events and do listen to Coast to Coast (except when they spend too much time discussing Hell), I think more for myself. I try to live for the present, and take more time when listening to others. I try to find something of value in everyone I encounter. No, I don't always succeed, but I consider this a worthy goal, an uplifting approach to enter each day.
Grumpy Cat will be like Peggy Lee singing; Is That All There Is To an Apocalypse? Is That All There Is?”
The world ends when I die. Sorry about that, other folks.
George Noory is a genuine Catholic with a great voice, gracious questions and good news writers. He can carry three hours of entertainment smoothy.
Art Bell is guilty of spreading myths and hurting families. He has a wonderful voice but fails to distinguish between fact and fiction. I have friends who freaked about Y2K after listening to Bell. He should be off the radio.
Listening to Noory during a late drive in the middle of nowhere is fun.
It will come in God’s Own Good Time.
Until then, I will soldier on to the best of my ability.
It's all business as usual. Until it's not.
Amo 5:18 ¶Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amo 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Amo 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
I believe what’s next on the agenda is the end of the age, not the end of the world.
Don’t rush it. It will end for everyone of us soon enough.
i hope you’ll never know.
left side wasn’t worth much for a while.
Better half had to do things that no one should have to do until your spouse is 100 AND infirm.
It’s like a nightmare that’s for real,
But got typing up from 16 back to 100 over those years.
lost 110 pounds past year.
will always have chronic pain in head and spine, but i can live with it.
wake up with body trembling, deaf mostly in right ear partially in left, but hearing aids work for now :)
CAN’T change what happened 10 seconds ago, so you live with the new you.
FR is a savior for me. FRiends 24 hours a day. I dont think Jim knows what this board does for some people.
Working as supervisor at laborer dispatch center. Good money for staten island.
i’m done babbling.
PS i’ve had LOTS of good times in laugh. it’s only fair to add that.
If that dude made the Koolaid.. don't drink it.
It'll make you sick and die.
THAT'S what he should be ... a stage ... a phase you go through ...
Then you grow up.
Live every day like you’ve got an appointment with your maker in the morning.
OF COURSE THEY'RE FAKE
THE REAL ONES TRIED TO KILL ME
Not to make light, but your comment reminded me of that.
Man, you write @#$@ing great.
i’m sorry about your pop dying young but he did lead a FULL life!! and had the right values.
my pop was WWII age, but he was 47 when i was born so i’m, as a matter of fact, 47 now too!! which means he’d be 94!!
I realized how precious family and life was after the head injury. Was an envious greedy crybaby before that.
Sounds like we’re both fighters and knwo what’s important in life.
Way Off Topic: I just noticed that while one of the discoverers of the Hale-Bopp Comet was named Alan Hale, that is ALSO the name of the actor who portrayed The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island. Coincidence?//
Then the one world government, one world religion and one world economy will tell us where we are on the Apocalyptic time table.
But it is actually all good news.
The New Earth will take over this dying old corrupt world... We win!
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